On the 13th tee Tiger used a 3 wood and drove his tee shot into the tree line. The initial camera angle seemed to show the ball at rest within a foot of the base of the tree. When Tiger and his caddie were over the ball, the ball appeared to be further away from the tree thus giving him an opportunity to advance the ball. The television camera shot showed a person standing behind this same tree when the ball came to rest. Is it possible that that person took the liberty of moving the ball? Or is it that I saw it wrong?

Yeah, I think Stevie gave it the old kick wedge!

he knew that the bishop had a few shots on him, so he decided to play winter rules

Do you do drugs Stevie?

Every day.

Good

Yeah, I'm sure that the gallery, nor the rules officials scattered all over the place were cool with someone giving it the ol' foot wedge for Tiger. It was just a camera angle trick I'm sure. The view right after the tee shot was rather low so that would make the ball look closer to the tree than it really was.

You chose this as your first post?? Awesome.

Is this a serious post?

You can't handle the truth...

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2003/s_jn-p1.php

haha

Yeah, it did happen, Tiger found out and missed the 3 footer for birdie.
He was so dissapointed he missed makeable putts on the next 3 holes also... Immelman got lucky

I thought the same thing when I saw that. The initial camera angel made it look like the ball came to rest just short of the tree, with the tree being between the ball and the hole. Then when they showed it again the ball was more to the side of the tree giving him a look at the green. I just figured maybe the ball took another bounce that I couldn't see from that angle. Who knows.

The several hundred 'patrons' a few yards from the ball should have a fair idea...

Telephoto lenses sometimes have this effect. They magnify things far away which has the side effect of compressing depth perception. It could be that the original angle had the Ball and Tree in line with one another and therefore compressed the apparent distance between the two.

Would you ask them for me please?

Seriously though, just wanted to point out that I saw what the OP saw. Then again I'm blind in one eye and can't see out the other!

He used the little known "Augusta Tree Rule". On any Sunday in April a player may move his ball up to 35.25 inches from any tree on the right side of hole 13. Kudos to Tiger for knowing this rule. Oh, had it been a US Open he could have used the "immovable tree rule", but that rule isn't in effect for the Masters.

The Open Championship has a similar rule:

The 'if you lose a ball left of the 17th your caddie can drop one down his trouser leg - provided you've flown more miles than any human being in history..'

Just kidding Gary. And I don't take drugs, even though I can outdrive you.

I think the person that started this post should not be allowed to post and/or reply to any other posts for a while....... make them think about what kind of propaganda they are trying to spread..... use your brain man.

For what? Making an observation? He wasn't stating it as fact, he was merely pointing out what he thought he observed and even qualified it with, "did I see it wrong?"

Ehehehehe.

Dunno why but everything negative Player has to say about things seems to be sour grapes to me....

The way they had the camera angle set up on 13 the slope looked like turn 1 at Daytona.

Thats not a trick camera angle. It looks like that in person too...

That's the beauty of high definition

TIGER

Oh and it looked that way to me too. But I think the size of the trees makes it deceiving.